The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-12-22

BILL"
Dir. Haskell replied. He said that the
Mississippi Agricultural College had cost
$50, 900 year to maintain it. No county
In this Stale can afford to donate anything
but the baldest nucleus for u separate col
lcge, while for the one proposed we have
the necessary buildings. In reply to DR..
Pope's question, rs it wise in the face of
the clamor Of the people?" he would ask
Is it wise, in the face of the camor for
economy and relief from taxation, to saddle
upon the people the untold expense of an
experiment which has been tried elsewhere
and proved to to be q failure? This farm
ers OF this State were S5 per cent. of the
population, and if they wanted an agricul-
tural college they could easily get it. He
showed from the catalogue Of the Missis-
sippi College that agriculture was taught
only nine months in the whole course of
three years, horticulture three months, and
chemistry tive months. The measure was
an honest effort to give the farmers what
is theirs. II there was no other reason
against the separate agricultural college, it
was sufficient that it would raise q wall Of
separation between the different prolcs-
sions and callings and create artificial dis
tnCtlons between the sons of Il common
mother, which could but work injury to
the best interests Of all the people.
MIR. III. F. Wilson supported the bill in a
telling speech. lie thought the principal
argument against the separate Agricultural
College had been presented by The gentle
man from Richland when he SO graphically
showed the effects Of such a system in sepa-
rating the people of the State into ranks
and colleges The cry fer separate col
lcge had not come up from the farmers Of
the State. When it did, he would be pre-
pared to give heed to it; until then, he
would oppose it. He could not exactly see
the success of Il Syslcu which taught young
men to raise cotton at a loss of 800 per
bale as he showed had been done in tn :,
Mississippi College.
MIR. Davenport said that he was compara
lively an uncducatcd Gan. He was glad
he had no more of it rs it would make him
bigger fool than he was. OF ali fools,
said he, the educated fool is the biggest.
Scientific farming Gracious alive. Show
me man who has ever made Il farmer by
reading books and III give So" (This
statement was greeted by . hurricane of
laughtcr) The proper way to make Il
farmer was to put him in the field. TO the
intense amusement Of his hearers he re-
pented his experience in scientific farming
as derived from following the instructions
found in newspaper
MIR. Thomas, Of Rchland, said that, in
had never been projected in South Carolina.
Its conception Involved the highest slatcs-
manShlp us well Us the scholastic genius
In the South Carolina Military Academy
we have unique school OF military and
practical discipline; in Clutiu College we
haze an admirable institution for the col
or!d men aud women Of South Carolina
in ihc South Carolina University we would
have five distinct schools providiog for
| l,I.,.r II, in, l,tn -,
the call for a Sepcralc college came from a
minority, representing not oHc tenth Of the
farmers Of the State. That minority lad
its rights They were good and true men,
but he did not think it was wise TO establish
the sepurate college Il was too expensive
i'll view Of the condition CT The State, ard il
we had millions to spend it would no! be
wise. lis tendency was TO place the farmer
on lower plane rather than TO elevate him
to dwarf his intellect and rcprcss his as
piraliOns under n partial culture They
should have the broad basis of general
education. In the present scheme there
was all the agricultural interests could de-
mand and it was freighted with solid and
lasting good to the State. He believed that
{, the new University was the system de-
. mandcd by the people of the State, and he
hoped that the tribunes Of thcIcoplc would
rise to the height of the grand conception
Of the bill before them, and by passing it
raise a monument to the wisdom of the
Trustees aud the craftsmanship of this
body, which shall endure to the blessing of
the future generations of our people, and
in the promotion of their unity and pros
perity.
Mr.. Padgct., of Colleton, moved to table
MIR. KeitCs motion. DR.. Pope called for
the yeas and nays. The result was-yeas,
> 60; nays, 81.
Mr.. Blackwell moved the previous qucs
ton, which was ordered, and the bill
passed its second reading by SO to "a.
5 When the Senate bill to amend Chap
g ter KIP. OF the General Statutes entitled
e "Of the University of South Carolina,
(Which was, in effect, to conform the
, Statutes to the provisions of the bill tc
t reorganize the University, which passeG
the House on Tuesday night came uI
for second reading. Dr. Pope moved
l to recommit, which failed.
. Mr.. Ansel endeavored to get in hi
amendment requiring the tuition fees tx
: be paid into the State treasury instead
JAi1e treasurer Of the University, which
vas rejected on Tuesday, but tho amend
mont was defeated by vote of 65 to 80
An amendment proposed by the com
r mittee was adopted, providing for the
control Of the fund provided by the
t grant of Congress for Agricultural anc
}. Mechanical Colleges, by the Trustees Of
C the University.
l. Other verbal amendments were made
l. and tho bill was ordered to third read
/ ing.
= THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT..
d The bill to reorganize the Dcpartmen
o of Agriculture came back to the House
}, with tho Senate amendments as ON
bodied in Senator Youmaus's substitute
}, The usual process is either TO concur O.
y to refuse to concur in amendments, bu
5 !, in this case, at the suggestion of Mr.
- Tindal, Of Clarendon, who had the bill
:" in charge, the dobate was adjourned anC
4 the Senate amendments were ordered t,
4 be printed. AS the bill now stand
Y (passod by the Senate) provision is mad
a for the organization OF the bureau unde
u the following system:
@ "That department of agriculture i
S hereby created and established, whic
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